Discussion on GURPS foundational concepts found in the GURPS Basic Set
Once again, my creativity is roused somewhat by a thread on the forums. This one’s on snakes and grappling. One might imagine that I have something to say on this, being the GURPS grappling guy. One would be right. The Raw Way (mostly) If you have a snake that attacks by constriction, you have a…
A while back, I posited that pretty good results can be obtained by assuming that the Vision bonus for “in plain sight,” that is, +10, applies fairly generically. Certainly it’s a good starting point to see what you can see. But what constitutes a basic roll? A Vision+10 roll for Joe Average will spot something man-sized…
This is in response to a quite interesting thread on Reverse Missiles. Like many things that occur at the intersection of magic and technology of any sort, there can be many answers depending on the metaphysics of how it is all supposed to work. Reverse Missiles 101 The key bits are There is one hit…